Tag: rodents

January 8, 2019

TWS member shares her journey to wildlife biology

TWS member Asia Murphy knew she wanted to study wildlife since she was a child, when she watched nature documentaries on television. As a wildlife biologist, she has studied a...

October 27, 2015

Invasive Plant Makes Hard Work for Small Predators

An invasive beach dune grass that provides safe harbor for rodents may be making life more difficult for small predators in some Northern California coastal ecosystems. Previous studies show that...

September 9, 2015

Study Explores Cross-Species Viral Transmission by Bats

Researchers studied the extent to which transmission of viruses between bat species around the world has occurred in the past 70 years and compared that to cross-species transmission among rodents....